An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8

Clavering Hundred Wyndale WYNDALE. This town was also part of the manor of Stockton, and of Gillingham, and so not mentioned in the book of Domesday, and coming to the Crown at the conquest, so remained, till granted

An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8

Clavering Hundred Geldeston GELDESTON. This town is not mentioned in the book of Domesday, being included and accounted for under the great lordship of Stockton, of which Archbishop Stigand was deprived, and William

An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8

Clavering Hundred Winston WINSTON. This town is not mentioned in the book of Domesday, being accounted for in the lordship of Stockton, of which it was a part and member, and was granted with Stockton, by King Stephen, to Hugh

An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8

Clavering Hundred Howe HOWE. This village, now accounted part of the hundred of Clavering, was part of the hundred of Hensted, at the grand survey; where we find this account of it: Alnoht, a freeman of Archbishop

An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8

Clavering Hundred Ellingham ELLINGHAM. Many towns begin with El; as Elford, Ellesmere, Eling, Elston, Elwick, from their site near the water, or a wet soil: Elwe is the name of a river in Wales. This lordship was part

An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8

Clavering Hundred Toft TOFT. William de Noiers was steward of the principal manor in this town (at the time of making the book of Domesday) for the Conqueror, who had seized on it, on the deprivation of Archbishop Stigand,

An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8

Clavering Hundred Hadescoe HADESCOE, At the survey was a beruite to the manor of Tofts, in this hundred, and William de Noiers was steward of it for the Conqueror, who had deprived Stigand, the Archbishop, who held it as a lay fee

An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8

Clavering Hundred Heckingham HECKINGHAM. Godric, the Conqueror's steward, had the grant of the principal lordship in this town, held by Hagan, under Stigand, the Archbishop, in the reign of the Confessor, with 4 carucates